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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
TopicModi govt 2019

Topic: Modi govt 2019

Pratap Sarangi — the new entrant in Modi govt who stands out for his simplicity

BJP leader Pratap Sarangi continues to live in a mud and bamboo house & rides a bicycle to most places.

Modi sticks with Harsimrat Kaur Badal, picks her over husband Sukhbir

Harsimrat Kaur Badal, food processing minister in the previous Modi govt, is one of only two Akali MPs in Lok Sabha this time.

BJP leader JP Nadda likely to replace Amit Shah as BJP president

Nadda enjoys the confidence of the party's top brass and was left out of PM Modi's new council of ministers.

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is the lone Muslim face in Modi’s new govt

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi was the Minority Affairs Minister in the previous Modi government and is credited with major reforms in the Haj policy.

Many fresh faces in Modi govt as state BJP leaders get rewarded with ministerial berths

While only two state leaders — ex-Uttarakhand CM Ramesh Pokhriyal & Karnataka’s Pralhad Joshi — will be cabinet ministers, numerous others have been made MoS.

New Modi govt — Amit Shah, Jaishankar in, Sushma, Maneka & Rathore out

A total of 58 ministers, including PM Modi, took oath late Thursday evening in a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Sworn into new council of ministers, Sanjeev Balyan still under Muzaffarnagar riots shadow

The 46-year-old lawmaker has denied his involvement in the riots and has claimed that he has been booked in a false case.

Youngest cabinet minister in 2014, Smriti Irani gets a place again in second Modi govt

Smriti Irani was shifted out of the HRD Ministry to Textiles after a two-year tenure replete with controversies during PM Modi's first term.

Full list of ministers in the Modi govt in order of their oath-taking

The list of 58 ministers who took oath to form the second Modi government.

Maneka Gandhi named pro-tem Speaker, son Varun Gandhi kept out of new Modi govt

Maneka Gandhi, who was WCD minister, frequently locked horns with BJP brass on issues such as triple talaq, female genital mutilation and animal rights.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.